“He caught her hand. He didn’t want her sympathy. His school years had been hard, but they’d taught him better lessons than Latin and algebra. They’d taught him that the upper classes looked on everyone else as no better than dogs, and smart men kept as far away from them as possible.”

“He caught her hand. He didn’t want her sympathy. His school years had been hard, but they’d taught him better lessons than Latin and algebra. They’d taught him that the upper classes looked on everyone else as no better than dogs, and smart men kept as far away from them as possible.”

— Samara Parish